Test System

Pentium 4 2.4c
ABIT IC7-MAX3
ATI Radeon X800 Pro 256 MB
160 GB SATA Seagate Barracuda (8 MB cache)
LiteOn 16X DVD-ROM
Soyo Raptor 400W Power Supply
Windows XP Professional (all the latest updates except Service Pack 2 installed)




SiSoft Sandra 2004

Our first test is SiSoftware Sandra 2004's memory benchmark which calculates both integer and float memory bandwidth. The results are purely theoretical and may not accurately represent real-world performance. Higher numbers represent better performance.

SiSoft Sandra 2004
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Memory Bandwidth (Int)

Memory Bandwidth (Float)

Corsair TWINX PC4000 @ 250 MHz

Crucial Ballistix PC4000 @ 250 MHz

Crucial Ballistix PC4000 @ 255 MHz

5828

5822

5939

0

(MB/s)

7500

 

 

Memory Bandwidth (Int)

Memory Bandwidth (Float)

Corsair TWINX PC4000 @ 250 MHz

Crucial Ballistix PC4000 @ 250 MHz

Crucial Ballistix PC4000 @ 255 MHz

5784

5776

5970

0

(MB/s)

7500

 

 

Sandra's memory bandwidth tests show a very negligible (less than 0.5%) difference between the two brands. Overclocking the Ballistix improves the integer and float memory bandwidth by 2% and 3.3% respectively.

FutureMark PCMark04 Build 120

PCMark04 is FutureMark's latest benchmarking utility aimed at testing almost every component in a computer. PCMark04 uses portions of real applications to stress the system. For today's testing, we will be looking specifically at the memory and overall system performance.

Overclocking the Ballistix memory increased the PCMark04 system score by roughly 1.5% and the memory score by about 2.25%. Comparing the Crucial to the Corsair shows less than 1% variation between the two at speeds of 250 MHz.